The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-03
ALL AT SKIES AND SEVENS
Why the Reception to President Cleve-
land Was Such HeartlesS Affair.
What the Sentinel and Other Democrats
Really Think Of Cleveland-A Kilkenny
Cat-Fight in the Grand Old Party.
THEIR REAL SENTIMENTS.

No one questions the almost painful lack or
heartiness in the reception of President Cleve-
land on Saturday. So far as Republicans were
concerned. they could scarcely be expected to
= make much noise over hippodrome, the III
concealed purpose OF which was to boom q man
as political candidate for political Office 1t
had been announced by Speaker Carlisle that
the Presidents trip meant conquest" and the
local Democratic managers had managed TO
throw around the visit much OF a parti-
san flavor as was possible. The Republicans
received the President respectfully. and with
more consideration for real non partisan wei
come to the chief magistrate than was shown by
Democrats. But the Democrats themselves had
no heart in it. Coming from Pennsylvania and
the East into the atmosphere of Indiana. Mr.
Cleveland must have been convinced that there
was much truth in all that had been said by
Scott Ray and his kind. about the feeling of In
diana Democrats toward him and mis- admins
tration. Indiana Democrats do not like Mr..
Gle veland, and they could not prevent letting
him know it on Saturday by the cold and chilling
greeting they gave him on his first visit to the
capital Of their State. Whatever there of
apparent enthusiasm was perfunctory, worked
up put on tor the occasion. The Sentinel of
Saturday, in the course of its leading editorial,
said:
s.Indianapolis to-day says welcome to Grover
Cleveland President of the United States of
America and she speaks the glad word with her
heart in her mouth. To the people OF
Indiana the name of Grover Cleveland sounds.
we apprenend, little more musical than to the
citizens of other States, because 1t Is. and for
ever is TO be, associated with the name OF In
diana's favorite Thomas A. Hendricks
Here the name of the President suggests at once
the name of the Vice-presldent VINO was elected
on the same ticket, and whose massive states
maDship. nobility of character public services
and private virtues won for him unperlshaoie
renown.
Indiana and the capital city of Indiana, well
come the President with an enthusiasm born
of respect for the high Office which be file. as
also for the answering integrity that has
marked his official acts"
What the Indianapolis Sentinel really thinks
of Mr. Cleveland is expressed in the following
editorial, published just after the late congress
sional elections The Sentinel then owned
and controlled by the same management as now:
1--WE have no hesitancy in laying at Mr.. Cleve-
lands door the responsibility for the misfortune
which has overtaken the party in the losses OF
congressman it sustained last Tuesday. We
may look upon the result as rsouke. The nm
American policy he has pursued in dealing with
the party and the partisans that elected
him to Office is the direct cause OF
the apathy of the party in SO many
sections of the country. He has done all
he could to destroy the party organization He
has chilled the honorable ambition of young
men, and grievously abused the old leaders
And in doing these things he has incurred, not
only their dissatisfaction. but the contempt OF
all manly Republicans. The defeat OF Carlisle
and Morrison, the heaviest blow the party has
ever received in late years, is directly attribut-
able to the faithlessness of Mr.. Cleveland to his
party obligations. These men are the greatest
of the partys leaders They are to Mr.. Cleye-
land as suns a rush-light; yet they, perforce.
must fall because Mr.. Cleveland has, on the one
hand, failed to support them in their legislative
policies, and on the other hand, has neglected to
keep his party in that enthusiastic condition
which characterized it when be assumed the
presidential Office.
.Mr. Cleveland must either prove himself a
Democrat IN the remaining years of his admin
istration or prepare o meet emphatic repudia-
tion by his party. He has not yet shown him
sef worthy the suffrage of those who elected
him. Thus far he has directed his forces against
the party. Yet have heard reports that he
aspres to reelection. We do not think he cares
60 do now, unless he possesses an assurance
even more colossal than he has yet manifested.
something we can scarcely admit TO be possible"
One or two other expressions of opinion
given which show the real sentiment enter
tanned by Democrats of Indiana toward Mr..
Cleveland, and which amply explain the dismal
ness of Saturdays proceedings:
From Scott Rays Paper. Tell the Truth, Read at
the Convention of Democratic Editors:
mo President since our constellation OF
States first sang together has been more unfor-
tunste in calling TO his aid those whose judg-
ment he invokes to guide his administration.
and for whose mistakes he is held responsible
To say that they are mostly weak. unknown,
impractical men, and unsatisfactory to the De-
rnocracy of the country, is to tell the truth. and
to add that statesmen of the Mcdonald Thur
man, Abbott, Doolittle, Palmer and Morgan
school would have given confidence in the ad-
ministration, is TO state recognized truth
wherever the English language is known or
spoken
Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State whose
mugwumpery at home and bad diplomacy
abroad have made parties a derision, treaties a
buresoue, and the American government the
laughing stock of the world. is worthy of men
ton. His antics on the fishing quest ion, and
his discovery OF so many antediluvian fossils to
represent us abroad, have actually led some to
believe the United States, after all, is only
p museum, where the weird relic and curiosity
hunter revel forever in delight
"Postmaster-general Villas. with his trained
army of Republican insolvents and spies, dis
earded his Democracy when leaving the beaut-
full lakes of Wisconsin to take up his residence
in Washington the banks OF the murkv Poto-
s.Father Endicott 1 believe that is his name.
may be a good old soul Secretary of War,
but he lacks ability. judgment, training and
strong. vigorous, wholesome, Democrauc
thought and action.
Attorney General Garlands abilities and brill
fancy man ever doubted, but they are so
tattooed by the Panelectric scandal that the
merits of the man have long since paled and
ceased to be objects of admiration.
II only tell the truth when L say that this
strange policy of the President meets with little
enthusiasm and approval by the Democrats of
Indiana. The rank and file of the party in this
great and important Democratic State have
shown their devotion when others, discouraged
fed the field but many now shake their heads
and weep within. when they asked to crown
the administration with their seal of unqualified
appreciation"
Scott Ray, at the Convention of Democratic Editors:
THAT with Mr. Cleveland the party's
choice a labor candidate will be sure to follow
that with a labor candidate in the field Demo-
Gratis cannot hope to carry New York without
whose electoral vote the party cannot succeed.
That the party will not be forced to con fine it's
search for a candidate within the narrow circle
of one mans influence, hut will cast about the
whole country for craftsmanship and avsilabil-
ity and select a candidate who will unite all dis
cordant elements and who will have weights
to retard his progress when the battle is on
THAT with MIR. Cleveland Indiana would be
lost, that il is doubtful whether he can carry
Virginia. West Virginia and North Carolina,
that be has alienated the Democratic members
of'tne Grand Army of the Republic"
DISAPPOINTED AND DISSATISFIED.